So...now that Civil War is over, does that mean I can start liking Ms. Marvel again? The character, I mean.
The cover image is pretty creepy and off-putting (might be the lack of eyes), so I wouldn't have picked up the book in a store based on that.
Luckily I pre-order them and get them in the mail.
But there was quite a bit to like in the actual book, and I don't specifically mean Carol punching Iron Man (although that was fun). No, what I liked was watching Carol--now that the War is done--reevaluate her priorities. Her lack of patience with both Sarah Day and Iron Man (best eye-rolling I've seen in comics recently!). Her negotiations with Tony regarding what she needs to be an effective leader, and the fact that he's willing to give them to her. Although I suspect that this will only go so far--I foresee a lot of power struggles in the pages of Mighty Avengers, and I figure that things will go swimmingly as long as Carol makes the decisions either that Tony agrees with or that he doesn't consider important. He's never been much of a delegator, and we've seen how he can be when he's convinced that he knows best. But that's probably a discussion for some other post.
I guess what I'm seeing that I like is movement--that Carol is seeing the problem with her previous life plan/strategy and is (at least at this point) making a genuine effort to change it. She obviously thinks she made some bad decisions during Civil War, and it'll be interesting to see what she does about that now.
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